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Senior Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader and former West Bengal minister Kshiti Goswami died at a private hospital in Chennai due to old-age related ailment.
He was 77 and is survived by his wife and daughter. Apart from age-related illness, Kshiti Goswami was also suffering from a lung infection for which he was admitted to the Chennai hospital where he breathed his last, the family sources said.
The leader of the RSP, a constituent of the Left Front, served as the state PWD minister for more than two decades — since the late eighties till 2011, when the regime was voted out of power.
He was also the state secretary of the RSP for a few years since 2012. Kshiti Goswami was elected the party’s national general secretary last year during its national conference. Baptised into politics in the early sixties, he was also the state secretary of the RSPB’s student wing — All India Progressive Students’ Union.
Although an important member of the Left Front, Kshiti Goswami never shied away from criticising the erstwhile dispensation in the state over some of its policies — be it forcible land acquisition in Singur for a car manufacturing plant or the attempt to set up a chemical hub in Nandigram despite stiff resistance from farmers.
CPIM condoles the death of Goswami
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expressed its deep grief and sorrow at the unexpected death of Kshiti Goswami, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, at the Apollo hospital, Chennai, where he was undergoing treatment.
This loss leaves a void not only for the RSP but for the Left Front in West Bengal and the Left movement in the country.
The CPI(M) conveys it deep condolences to Kshiti Goswami’s family and all comrades of the RSP.